gatineau

public monument competition

A juried competition to devise a monument for a vacant site at the entrance to the city of Gatineau-Hull. Our project took as its theme the history of Gatineau-Hull as a centre for the lumber and pulp and paper industry, a history now virtually erased. As a child growing up in Ottawa I often drove with my father by the enormous pile of logs at the E.B Eddy mill and saw the log runs still taking place in the Gatineau River. This competition response takes the form of a boomed raft of logs or a log-jam and simplifies and abstracts it into a tilting, multi-faceted wooden plane, moving with and cantilevering off the existing topography as it slopes down towards the Ottawa River. [collaboration with Atelier Big City, architects]